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Eclipse is a web-based artwork-application that alters and corrupts images of United States national and state parks based on the air quality of the nearest city within a 65-miles radius.
After a park is chosen from data the pull-down menu, Eclipse performs two data-scraping operations:

1. Eclipse searches for images tagged with the park’s name from the photo-sharing website flickr.com
2. Eclipse data-scrapes the real-time particle pollution data for the nearest city via airnow.gov, a site that presents air quality conditions for over 300 locations across the US.

The higher the Air Quality Index or pollution level for the selected location, the more park image is corrupted through a set of algorithms that affect color, saturation, and contrast of the file’s data.

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Referências:
- www.ecoarttech.net
- www.turbulence.org